Iron Maiden Now Fronted By Doctor

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson - or rather, Dr Bruce Dickinson - has received an Honorary Doctorate of Music degree from Queen Mary University in London on Tuesday, to honor his contribution to the music industry.
It is not the first fling Dickinson has had with the university who awarded him the degree, as he first studied there in 1979 on a history course - in order to please his parents while he found other musicians to start a band with. "That was what [my parents] wanted to hear so that was my cover story," he said. "When I got down there, I started immediately finding and playing in bands."
Being a doctor and frontman in a leading heavy metal band are only the tip of his qualifications. According to Henne Music, Bruce is also an author, film script writer and TV broadcaster, a champion fencer, entrepreneur and commercial airline pilot for his band's plane, lovingly titled "Ed Force One".
Iron Maiden are currently on "The Final Frontier" tour, which at one point was visited by popstar Lady Gaga, as reported elsewhere on our site today.

L2112Lif wrote:
DaddyTwoFoot wrote:
Hopefully that "defree" comes in handy.
I dunno. Its a commonly held belief that a music 'Defree' is one of the most useless 'Defrees' on the market today. He should've gotten a Business Management 'Defree' IMHO.

lol and why the hell does bruce need a degree anyway? he fronts one of the best and most successful bands ever!
And i dont think you can choose the degree you want when its honorary... xD That would be like finding 20$ on the ground and go find the owner claiming you want a 50 instead... xD

tntero wrote:
L2112Lif wrote:
DaddyTwoFoot wrote:
Hopefully that "defree" comes in handy.
I dunno. Its a commonly held belief that a music 'Defree' is one of the most useless 'Defrees' on the market today. He should've gotten a Business Management 'Defree' IMHO.
lol and why the hell does bruce need a degree anyway? he fronts one of the best and most successful bands ever!
And i dont think you can choose the degree you want when its honorary... xD That would be like finding 20$ on the ground and go find the owner claiming you want a 50 instead... xD

tntero wrote:
edgeyyz wrote:
He earned a defree?
Jon777 wrote:
Where can I get one of these defree things? I'm interested.
I though we already went through the defree thing... its a mistake, it happens, dont be flamer trolls!

I'm not sure you know what you just said. Besides, given the frequency that mistakes happen in articles on this site, I'd say that pointing them out is justified. Proofreading is not that hard. But hey, maybe they should hire someone to do it for them... (PICKMEPICKMEPICKME)

I don't think I understand.
He took a single class there, only to fool his parents while he was looking for bandmates, then he gets incredibly famous and they give him an honorary degree.
I can't help but think his name appears at least once in their brochures, or whatever schools use to promote themselves.

L2112Lif wrote:
DaddyTwoFoot wrote:
Hopefully that "defree" comes in handy.
I dunno. Its a commonly held belief that a music 'Defree' is one of the most useless 'Defrees' on the market today. He should've gotten a Business Management 'Defree' IMHO.

Music degrees aren't for people who plan on going into "business" etc. Its for people who actually want to pursue a career in music, having such a degree is an edge over people who don't.

institutions wrote:
I don't think I understand.
He took a single class there, only to fool his parents while he was looking for bandmates, then he gets incredibly famous and they give him an honorary degree.
I can't help but think his name appears at least once in their brochures, or whatever schools use to promote themselves.

EpiExplorer wrote:
Skullivan wrote:
Only thing he needs now is to serve in the armed forces. He would be Captain Dr. Lieutenant Dickinson.
And force his obnoxious son to change his name to Bruce as well.
Captain Dr. Lt Bruce Dickinson Snr.

L2112Lif wrote:
DaddyTwoFoot wrote:
Hopefully that "defree" comes in handy.
I dunno. Its a commonly held belief that a music 'Defree' is one of the most useless 'Defrees' on the market today. He should've gotten a Business Management 'Defree' IMHO.

Business management is such a vague "defree" that no one hiring seems to really care about it. That's my experience. They want something specialized.

This guy is a legend, is there anything he can't do? He can already fence at a championship level, he's an entrepreneur, marketing director, AND a singer/songwriter for one of the most successful metal bands ever! Up the Irons!

First line of Bruce Dickinson's Wiki: "Paul Bruce Dickinson (born 7 August 1958) is an English singer, airline pilot, fencer, broadcaster, author, director, musician, screenwriter, actor, marketing director, entrepreneur and songwriter, best known as the vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden."
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EpiExplorer wrote:
Skullivan wrote:
Only thing he needs now is to serve in the armed forces. He would be Captain Dr. Lieutenant Dickinson.
And force his obnoxious son to change his name to Bruce as well.
Captain Dr. Lt Bruce Dickinson Snr.

Are honorary degrees really worth anything? A couple years ago all three members of Muse were given honorary doctorates of music from the University of Plymouth. Not comparing the two bands at all, mind you.

Holoogamooga wrote:
Are honorary degrees really worth anything? A couple years ago all three members of Muse were given honorary doctorates of music from the University of Plymouth. Not comparing the two bands at all, mind you.

Holoogamooga wrote:
Are honorary degrees really worth anything? A couple years ago all three members of Muse were given honorary doctorates of music from the University of Plymouth. Not comparing the two bands at all, mind you.

Honorary degrees are completely worthless publicity B.S. An insult to people who got degrees legitimately.

Ibeanez wrote:
Holoogamooga wrote:
Are honorary degrees really worth anything? A couple years ago all three members of Muse were given honorary doctorates of music from the University of Plymouth. Not comparing the two bands at all, mind you.
Honorary degrees are completely worthless publicity B.S. An insult to people who got degrees legitimately.

DanielN wrote:
Ibeanez wrote:
Holoogamooga wrote:
Are honorary degrees really worth anything? A couple years ago all three members of Muse were given honorary doctorates of music from the University of Plymouth. Not comparing the two bands at all, mind you.
Honorary degrees are completely worthless publicity B.S. An insult to people who got degrees legitimately.
But defrees on the other hand...

The title scared the s*** out of me. I thought this meant they were gonna have some new lead vocalist with "doctor" in his stage name! D: Though the actual news (and that photo of Bruce) gave me great relief.
And don't you all agree that lady gaga is so amazing for liking Iron Maiden? I just really love reading all these article about HOW MUCH SHE LOVES IRON MAIDEN! Now not only will she be popular among pop fans, but now all of us rock fans fall in love with her as well! I am so HAPPY!!

L2112Lif wrote:
DaddyTwoFoot wrote:
Hopefully that "defree" comes in handy.
I dunno. Its a commonly held belief that a music 'Defree' is one of the most useless 'Defrees' on the market today. He should've gotten a Business Management 'Defree' IMHO.

I know! Hopefully he'll be able to find a music career with that degree!.....

tntero wrote:
l and why the hell does bruce need a degree anyway? he fronts one of the best and most successful bands ever!
And i dont think you can choose the degree you want when its honorary... xD That would be like finding 20$ on the ground and go find the owner claiming you want a 50 instead... xD xD

He's just reliving opportunities he missed out on while on tour. Brian May received his PHD in Astrophysics after Queen's touring halted after Wembley.

That is such bullcrap that, just because hes rich and famous, he gets a freakin defree!!! I worked my as off for 3 years only to get booted out of school for write-ups!!! I WANT MY DEFREE!!!
And ya, eff off, flamer trolls -_-